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“Gully Boy” is an important, beautiful story, but its blaring use of brown face yields to the popular idea that the protagonist Murad and all his friends must be darker-skinned because they are from a slum.
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Free speech in India is, to put it mildly, restricted. I used to think that being a journalist in India was the most terrifying job to do.
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The weekend of the competition was exhausting, and involved plenty of rehearsal and very little sleep. Before we knew it, my teammates and I were dolled up and at the performance venue, nervous and excited.
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He doesn’t care that his audience most definitely consists of non-Indians; he assumes, right from the beginning, that his audience understands — which is precisely where “Patriot Act” finds its strength.
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Media platform POPeye Media’s recent short documentary, “San Francisco’s Dying Music Scene,” sheds light on this very community, talking to some of its members about what the city and its music mean to them.
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Grade: 4.0/5.0 Ever wonder what it feels like to nest yourself in a comfortable movie theater seat and instantly be transported back to when you were 7 years old and struggling to spell supercalifragilisticexpialidocious? Enter “Mary Poppins Returns.” Director-producer Rob Marshall’s sequel to the age-old classic is everything one could
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The event, hosted by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, featured a screening of the season’s highlights, as well as a conversation with two of its artists: Syjuco and multimedia artist Lynn Hershman Leeson.
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Veteran filmmaker Jeanne Marie Hallacy is passionate about stories of social justice, and, with “Mother, Daughter, Sister,” she has added another film to her already long list of documentaries about human rights issues relating to Southeast Asia.
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Amandla Stenberg, who plays the lead character, Starr, in “The Hate U Give,” Russell Hornsby, who plays her father, Maverick, and director George Tillman Jr. sat next to each other. The comfort of the three members of the movie was palpable.
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Being a child is a privilege of sorts — typically, it allows nonchalance and requires very little worry. For Starr Carter (Amandla Stenberg), however, her childhood circumstances insist that she know her rights, know her worth. Starr does not have the privilege of being a child.
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